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Hillary Clinton bills herself as the champion of the working class, which is odd, since she doesn’t pay her field campaign staff anything. That’s right, her campaign has hired a bunch of experience political workers and isn’t paying them a…

Some Democrats are about to find out what it’s like to be on the receiving end of the unions’ ire over the Keystone XL pipeline. The Labors International Union of North America (LIUNA) is not happy that some House members…

Big tech companies have been pushing for immigration reform. But the way they have been skirting the H-1B visa caps by calling foreign workers they bring in “students” makes you wonder why. They seem to be enjoying plenty of cheap…

President Obama wants to hike the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, but what he isn’t telling people is that with Obamacare, the minimum wage employers will be paying is going to be $10.30 per hour, not counting existing payroll…

You just couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. More than 100 big American companies are demanding immigration reform so they can import low cost labor after many of those same companies have laid off thousands of US workers.…

Terry McAuliffe released his first TV spot in the Virginia governor’s race. The ad portrays him as a real family man and shows him in the delivery room with his wife. It’s a real hoot once you find out what…

In the state of Illinois stalking is illegal, as it should be. Well, unless you’re a union boss. Then you can stalk and harass people all you want as long as the stalking is tied to a labor dispute. And…

One of the reasons the unemployment rate isn’t in the double digits is the fact that so many Americans have dropped out of the labor force. In President Obama’s first term, that number has increased by a shocking 8.3 million…

If you thought things in Wisconsin were ugly when Governor Walker passed public sector union reforms, just wait. There’s a big fight brewing in Michigan. It’s an interesting situation up there in Michigan: as the Detroit News rather sourly notes, the Republicans…

Jane McElevey is left wing activist and labor leader who explains in the video below how their goal is to take down employers and the free enterprise system. These are the folks who work hard to elect Democrats, why do…

I don’t watch ABC News very often, but every now and then I forget to change the channel after the local news. Monday night was one of those times. Diane Sawyer was happily reporting from China. The reports throughout the…

by Lonely Conservative • June 17, 2010 • Comments Off on A Wee Bit of Good News! Supreme Court Decides 2 Person Labor Board is Illegal

The oil spill and the accompanying kangaroo court in Washington has understandably overshadowed the other news. Today there was a little bit of good news. That’s so rare these days I couldn’t wait to share! ABC News: More than 500…

It’s like he wants the stock market to crash and burn. Did President Obama contribute to last Friday’s stock market dive with a head fake to investors? Last Wednesday, in a speech at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, the President said,…